Shakespeare was a playwright and a poet, and he saw the world in a different perspective than most people. “He makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to show in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance” (Park, 2015). He is saying that Shakespeare …show more content…
It goes for fair and foul as well. It leaves that uncertainty that it may or may not be what either fair or foul is, and this is shown throughout the play. What may seem like an act of positivity is possibly an act of negativity. When the witches say, “Hover through fog and filthy air”, they say that they will fly through the dark unseen watching the events that they predicted unfold. They foresaw the inconsistency of the evil in characters like Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and Macduff. Lady Macbeth convinced Macbeth to kill Duncan in order to receive the power of being king. Since Macbeth had the power of a king, he did not want the power to go to someone else. So he had killed
Banquo in fear that he wanted his sons to be king. He continues this killing spree in order to stay in power, and the weird sisters watched the entire series of events take place.
“New horrors come upon him. Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold, but with the aid of use.” This line is said by Banquo in Act 1 Scene. He is thinking about how
Macbeth hears the prophecy from the weird sisters and how this will change his behavior. He